Sentence examples for electric failure from inspiring English sources

This conductive textile electrode can sustain up to 140% strain without electric failure.

The state rail network ground to a halt for four hours because of an electric failure, stranding hundreds of thousands of commuters during the evening rush hour.

Chernobyl at the time of the 1986 electric failure and explosion had four operating reactors and two more under construction.

The ships are vulnerable to "total electric failures", according to one naval officer in an email.

The BBC reported that a senior serving naval officer had written in an email that "total electric failures are common" on the ships.

The navy's companion fleet - six new £1bn Type 45 destroyers - are vulnerable to "total electric failures" according to a Royal navy officer in an email seen by the BBC.

Eight more factories, dedicated to making things like lithium-ion batteries and semiconductor lasers, were also thrown off line, in some cases because of direct damage from the natural disasters, in most cases because of electric failures.

WASHINGTON — The A380 superjumbo aircraft whose engine blew apart on departure from Singapore on Nov. 4 was far more seriously damaged than initial reports indicated, with hydraulic and electric failures and serious damage to the plane's skeleton, according to independent experts who examined newly available photographs of the jet and leaked accounts of the investigation.

In her anger, she connected an old electric curling iron into a plug in her cabin, which caused an electricity failure throughout the vessel.

They are used, for example, in digital circuits so that information stored in large computer memories is not lost during a momentary electric power failure; the electric energy stored in such capacitors maintains the information during the temporary loss of power.

Mr. Lochbaum, who also worked as an instructor for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on G.E. reactors, said that such reactors were equipped to ride out interruptions in electrical power by using pumps that could be powered by steam, which would still be available in case of electric power failure.